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Market Talk – February 26, 2019

Asia: Most of the major Asian stocks decreased today after yesterday’s impressive rise, particularly in the Shanghai Composite. The Shanghai dropped 63bps to 2943 today. Nikkei decreased -0.37bps to 21449; Kospi decreased 25bps to 2227; Hang Seng and ASX 200 decreased 65bps and 94bps to 28772 and 6128 respectfully. Gold did not absorb any of […]

WEC Rome 2019 – The Fate of Europe & the World

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Funds Management & Trading – Behind the Curtain

QUESTION: Hello I read all your blogs and prescribe to your market reports. I will now attend my first event in Rome. For me it all makes sense. My questions is, which you must have gotten before, why don’t you offer a fund that is based on Socrates, so that we all your followers could invest […]

Three PRIVATE BLOGS Explained

We have created three separate membership options for the Socrates Platform(www.Ask-Socrates.com) which are intended for three separate audiences. First, we have the BASIC Membership service at $15 per month which is intended for the average person who is interested in the broader term with respect to trends and not interested in short-term trading back and forth. Then […]

How 10% of the People Can Make a Difference & Real Estate’s Role

QUESTION: Dear Marty, First I would like to thank you for all the help you provide especially for us little guys. I’m from Barcelona, and happily attended the release of “The forecaster” when you were there a few years ago. I’m under 30 and working my butt off trying to save what I can while […]

Will Russia’s Economy Exceed Germany’s Anytime Soon?

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Standard Chartered has forecast that Russia will overtake Germany as the world’s fifth largest economy, possibly as early as next year in 2020. Would you care to comment if that is possible? GP ANSWER: It is clear that Russia’s economy is not impacted by the stupid US sanctions for going into Ukraine. Historically, […]

Superbowl LIII – A Historic Low Point & Low Viewership?

The Patriots beat the Rams but only a score of 13-3. Superbowl LIII (53) at half-time was the second lowest scoring game in history. The first half of Sunday’s game between the Patriots and the Rams ended in the second lowest scoring first half in a Super Bowl at 3–0, New England. It was 44 years ago when […]

Market Talk – January 31, 2019

  Asia: Yesterdays’ FOMC, although rates were unchanged, the surprisingly dovish tone from Fed Chair. What was to follow was the global markets reacting to this, with Asian markets all performing well namely the Japanese Nikkei 225 and the Hang Seng index rising by 1.1% and the Chinese Shanghai Composite rose 0.4%. Huawei, with the […]

Market Talk – January 30, 2019

Asia: Both the Nikkei and the Shanghai were amongst the losers in Asia, dropping 108.10(-0.52%) and 17.28(-0.67%) bps respectfully. Kospi on the contrary had a positive day climbing more than 1%. The prolonged US-China trade war coupled with slowing Chinese growth is putting uncertainty in the region. The Japanese Industrial production PMI expect at -0.5% (previous was […]

Internal Migration – The Cycle or City States

  There is an interesting book entitled The Chinese Exodus. This work explores the sociological and theological discussion going on concerning China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978. While the book documents the social and political processes impacting the experiences of internal migrants from the countryside to the city within China, the attempt […]